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- Schuurman, Nora, 1968-, et al.
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Interspecies care, knowledge and ownership : Children’s equestrian cultures in Sweden and Finland
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Riding became a widespread leisure activity for children in Sweden and Finland during the post-war decades through the emergence of riding schools. Horse yards, especially riding schools, provide a unique context for the analysis of children’s relations to animals and their care in the Nordic countries. Drawing on books and comics published in Sweden and Finland from the 1960s to the present, together with interviews and observations at contemporary Swedish riding schools, we approach this development with a geographical, historical and sociological focus. We ask how children’s equestrian cultures were formed within the spaces of horse yards, especially riding schools, and how caring well was understood and negotiated through different types of knowledge and the idea and practice of horse ownership. As we show in the analysis, despite the increase of written knowledge about horses and their care, situated and relational knowledges based on interspecies interaction prevailed in children’s equestrian cultures. Mutual agencies, guided by knowledges of different types, defined a cultural sphere for children, situated in specific human– animal spaces in which children had a chance to interact with animals and care for them outside the everyday spaces of family and school. In these cultures of interspecies care, ideas of horse ownership carried expectations of continuity where the child–horse relationship was secured and had a chance to develop. The entry to these spatial cultures was through rites of passage characterised by embodied interaction and hands-on care, where children learned to care for animals well.
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- Schuurman, Nora, et al.
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Interspecies care, knowledge and ownership : Children’s equestrian cultures in Sweden and Finland
- 2023
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Ingår i: Children's Geographies. - : Routledge. - 1473-3285 .- 1473-3277. ; , s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Riding became a widespread leisure activity for children in Sweden and Finland during the post-war decades through the emergence of riding schools. Drawing on books and comics published in Sweden and Finland from the 1960s to the present, together with interviews and observations at contemporary Swedish riding schools, we approach this development with a geographical, historical and sociological focus. We ask how children’s equestrian cultures were formed within the spaces of horse yards, especially riding schools, and how caring well was understood and negotiated through different types of knowledge and the idea and practice of horse ownership. As we show in the analysis, despite the increase of written knowledge about horses and their care, situated and relational knowledges based on interspecies interaction prevailed in children’s equestrian cultural spheres in which children had a chance to interact with animals and care for them outside the everyday spaces of family and school. In these cultures of interspecies care, ideas of horse ownership carried expectations of continuity where the child–horse relationship was secured and could develop. The entry to these spatial cultures was through rites of passage characterised by embodied interaction and hands-on care, where children learned to care for animals well
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Animal Places : Lively Cartographies of Human-Animal Relations
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nonhuman animals are ubiquitous to our ‘human’ societies. Interdisciplinary human/animal research has - for 50 years - drawn attention to how animals are ever-present in what we think of as human spaces and cultures. Our societies are built with animals and through all kinds of multispecies interactions. From public spaces and laboratories to homes, farms and in the ‘wilderness’; human and nonhuman animals meet to make space and place together, through webs of power relations. However, the very spaces of these interactions are not mute or passive themselves. The spaces where species meet matter, and shape human/animal relations.This book takes as its starting point the relationship between place and human/animal interaction. It brings together the work of leading scholars in human/animal studies, from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds. With a distinct focus on place, physical space and biocultural geography, the authors of this volume consider the ways in which space, human and nonhuman animals co-constitute each other, how they make spaces together, produce meaning around them, struggle over access, how these places are storied and how stories of spaces matter. Presenting studies thematically and including a variety of nonhuman creatures in a range of settings, this book delivers new understandings of the importance of nonhuman animals to understandings of place - and the role of places in shaping our interactions with nonhuman creatures. As pets, as laboratory animals, as exhibits, as parasites, as livestock, as quarry, as victims of disaster or objects of folklore, this book offers insights into human/animal intermingling at locales and settings of great relevance to many areas of research, including geography, sociology, science and technology studies, gender studies, history and anthropology. This book meets the evolving interest in human/animal interaction, anthrozoology, and the environmental humanities in relation to the research on space and place that currently informs the humanities and the social sciences.
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- Bååth, Jonas, 1985-
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Production in a State of Abundance : Valuation and Practice in the Swedish Meat Supply Chain
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is a sociological contribution to the study of abundance. It discusses the case of Swedish meat producers and how they persist in producing pork and beef despite a lack of demand and competitive disadvantages compared with foreign suppliers. In doing so, this study answers how abundance is perpetuated in the production of a foodstuff in over-supply. This monograph further adds new empirical and theoretical knowledge to the fields of food studies, economic sociology, and the social sciences studying problems of abundance.The study explores how Swedish meat producers deal with problems stemming from supplying more than demanded volumes of food. The inquiry into this topic combines pragmatism, economic sociology, and qualitative fieldwork. The empirical materials mainly consist of in-depth interviews with 41 informants and more than one month of participatory observations from the Swedish meat supply chain.The evidence supplied shows how farmers, meat processors, and retailers continue supplying an abundant foodstuff by studying the valuations used in their production practice. The conclusion is that meat is not supplied to meet the consumers’ demand for food. Instead, this foodstuff is supplied as a marketing tool to meet the producers’ demand for commerce as an aesthetic of market exchange, or sustained production in line with Swedish agrifood policy, distinguished by high animal welfare and low antibiotics use. It is further argued that abundance is perpetuated because these producers rely on valuations which distinguish certain qualities of a good, rather than sufficient quantity of supply. Without using a quantitative, commensurable measure, it is not possible to limit the supply. This study contrasts existing theories of abundance by stating that problems thereof depend on how sufficiency is valuated, not the existence of some excess. These findings further support the argument that supply chains must be granted more attention in food studies primarily preoccupied with consumers. They also suggest further investigations into the relationships between markets in supply chains, and the role of production sites in economic life, would benefit economic sociology.
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- Creswell, Philip K., 1982-
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Chains of Trust : Networks of Persistent Resistance in Digital Activism
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Digital manifestations and their networks are seen as agile, but fragile, with the Internet facilitating fast, low-cost activism by bridging actors, distributing information, and circumventing gatekeepers. From this perspective, mediated collective action and digital activism are theorized through the understanding of the Internet as a medium which affords lowered costs and risks for activists. Such theories, however, side-step the phenomenon of hacktivism, where the costs and risks of participation may be higher. Moreover, while issues of legality and risk play an integral part in understanding the phenomenon of hacktivism, they have rarely been studied directly. As such, little evidence exists regarding the effects of increased costs and risks on participation in digital activism. Nonetheless, the research record from non-mediated collective action and activism shows that higher-risk or higher-cost activism is most often supported by tight organizational or interpersonal networks. Such ties, strong or otherwise, frequently go uninterrogated in research on digital activism. To investigate these issues, I performed a three-year ethnography in the digital (social movement) scene called Anonymous. Anonymous has been associated with, among other things, digital protest, and hacktivist actions. These protests and hacking actions have resulted in legal consequences for hundreds of participants throughout the world, some of whom are still awaiting trial or serving prison sentences. Using risks and costs as a lens to explore Anonymous’ digital activism, I aim to interrogate scholars’ understandings and conceptualizations of mediated collective action, as well as the nature of interpersonal ties and trust in uncertain, high-cost, or high-risk, mediated activism. I ask how participants characterized the costs and risks of their participation, as well as how they navigated collaborative relationships and assessed the trustworthiness of peers. My analysis shows that participants in Anonymous viewed their participation as risky and narratively tied increased risks to a series of arrests which took place in 2011 and 2012. Consequently, participants attempted to mitigate the risks of their participation through individual and collective strategies that encouraged the development of clusters of activists who participated in increasingly tight-knit, closed groups. Network closure, in turn, encouraged the formation of bonding ties and affective loyalty. While openly acknowledging the risks of such bonds, participants relied upon them and even justified continued participation through a social lens. These findings exemplify conditions—those characterized by network closure and groups where members are enmeshed in clusters of strong ties—which can be understood as strong, mediated ties. This study offers, therefore, not only a novel understanding of Anonymous, but also evidence that suggests that models of mediated collective action should account for risks and costs even in digital milieus. Furthermore, these findings suggest circumstances under which re-searchers may expect to find persistent resistance in an (almost entirely) digital milieu.
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Death Matters : Cultural Sociology of Mortal Life
- 2019
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book investigates death as part of contemporary everyday experience and practices. Through a cultural sociological lens, it studies death as it remains constantly at the edge of our consciousness, shaping the ways in which we move through social reality. As such, Death Matters is a significant contribution to death studies, going beyond traditional parameters of the field by addressing the cultural omnipresence of death.The contributions analyses several death-related meaning-making processes, arguing that meanings emerging from culturally shared narratives, social institutions, and material conditions, are just as important as ’death practices’ in understanding the role of death in society. Drawing on the related themes of places of absence and presence, disease and bodies, and persons and non-persons, the authors explore a variety of areas of social life, from haunting to celebrity deaths, to move the notion of death from the margins of social reality to on going everyday life.
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